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Saturday, May 12, 2018

Singles bought when they came out that I am not sure if I am embarrassed by!

I bought quite a few dance 12" singles and loved things that I deemed were worthy of being in my collection but sneered at much disco music, night clubs were for sad glitterati but the exceptions where like 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer and no-one could quite dare tell this artist to her face her stuff wasn't cool as . . . . . . . . . . check out the writers and musicians on this! LADIES & GENTLEMEN: Ms GRACE JONES!



On this day in music history: May 11, 1981 - “Nightclubbing”, the fifth studio album by Grace Jones is released. Produced by Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, it is recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, The Bahamas in early 1981. Issued as the follow up to the critically acclaimed “Warm Leatherette”, it is the second album Jones records with a group of musicians that includes Sly Dunbar (drums), Robbie Shakespeare (bass), Wally Badarou (keyboards), and Uziah “Sticky” Thompson (percussion). Spinning off three singles including “Demolition Man” (written for Grace by Sting, with The Police recording their own version later in the year), “I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)” and “Pull Up To The Bumper” (#5 R&B, #2 Club Play). It is her commercial breakthrough on a worldwide basis. The album is also supported by the groundbreaking concept tour “A One Man Show”, which is filmed for a live concert video (released in 1982) and is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video. The album is remastered and reissued as a two CD Deluxe Edition in 2014, with the first disc containing the original nine song album. The second disc features 12" mixes and previously unreleased tracks from the recording sessions. with the “Nightclubbing” peaks at number nine on the Billboard R&B album chart, and number thirty two on the Top 200.

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